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...editorial shows a poor appreciation of the merits of the Faculty's policy with regard to student theatricals. It is curious to put student comic opera in the same class with the plays of Ben Johnson and Racine...
...poetry; naturally it was least so on the stage. Classic tragedy was dead. Shakespeare and Schiller were used as models. Mme. de Stael wrote "L'Allemagne," Stendhal wrote "Racine et Shakespeare." Victor Hugo in his "Preface de Cromwell" defined the drama as a mixture of the tragic and the comic with an historic stage setting and with out the three unities. But these are not the real signs of the romantic drama. In fact there was a style of play which was increasing in popular favor as tragedy declined; this was the melodrama. Romantic drama is merely well written melodrama...
...been granted, is nothing but a "Freshman trick." When a newspaper in all solemnity declares that "the cheek of every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down to a perfectly harmless piece of folly they magnify it to an outrage and still call us children. Considering the character of the trick, I cannot imagine that...
...fencing, which was enthusiastically applauded. A clever monologue in French by H. W. Cram '97 gave the reciter a chance to shoo his skill in acting. R. de K. Gilder '99 followed with a French song which was very successfully sung to the accompaniment of a guitar. Several comic selections by J. C. McCall '99 were very well received and a short monologue by E. L. Dudley 1900 in imitation of Coquelin was also amusing. The hit of the evening was R. Logan '97 in the character of M. Brunetiere. The performance closed with more singing and music...
...first public performance of the Pi Eta comic opera, "Fool's Gold," was given in the society's theatre last evening. There was a large audience which received the opera enthusiastically and called for many encores. Considerable snap was put into the piece and the work of the principals was on the whole very good. The chorus did excellent work. Its dances were well done and its singing good. The costuming is tasteful and the opera is well stayed...